Date: 1667
"Yet by Impressions born with us we find/ How good, great, just thou art, how unconfin'd."
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Date: 1667
"When shall these clogs of Sense and Fancy break, / That I may hear the God within me speak?"
preview | full record— Philips [née Fowler], Katherine (1632-1664)
Date: 1667
"Nor could they trouble us, but that our mind / Hath its own glory unto dross confin'd."
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Date: 1667
"So Age and Death by slow approches come, / And by that just inevitable doom / By which the Soul (her cloggy dross once gone) / Puts on Perfection, and resumes her own."
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Date: 1667
"Too promising, too great a mind/ In so small room to be confin'd"
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Date: 1667
"By giving thy Soul room to move: / Affording scene unto that mind, / Which is too great to be confin'd. [...]Thou mightst retire, but who e're meant / A Palace for a Tenement"
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Date: 1667
"And as in Palaces the outmost, worst / Rooms entertain our wonder at the first; / But once within the Presence-Chamber door, / We do despise what e're we saw before: / So when you with her Mind acquaintance get, / You'l hardly think upon the Cabinet."
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Date: 1667
"Thy Heart locks up my Secrets richly set, / And my Breast is thy private Cabinet."
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Date: 1667
"Whose Mirrours are the crystal Brooks, / Or else each others Hearts and Looks."
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Date: 1667
"And yet those Souls, when first they met, / Lookt out at windows through the Eyes."
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